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I�d like to find out what sort of curriculum the average Language school in Thailand has set up for their teachers.

I taught Oral English {Conversation} in a Chinese University for a term and was assured before hand that there was a standard curriculum in place. When I arrived I was let in on the secret that I would teach the classes what ever I wanted, give them any type of exam I felt like at the end of the term and then give them any type of grade I felt like. The text book {lol} was beyond a joke and thoroughly useless. The classes were 1 � hours long so I had to pull a term full of interesting 90 minute conversational lessons out of the great blue sky.

I�ll be arriving in LoS in a month or 2 and wish to work in a lang. school rather than any other type of institute � mainly for the smaller class sizes, and am kinda hoping to work in a place that will have {at least} a basic curriculum in place - with decent text books to lesson plan from etc. Am I asking for too much?

I�d be really interested in what I can expect to be walking into. Being given a timetable and told to submit their end of year grades at the end of term {the Chinese University way}, or something a bit more professional � a set curriculum of what the students are to be taught over the course of the term/year and a corresponding text book from which to teach them � an ACTUAL text book too and not something that was more useful as a tree.

I�d be interested in hearing people�s experiences,

Cheers.